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Mackenzie was buried alive, and running out of air. He had to find a way out of the coffin that he was in.


"Where could he have gotten to? He was with us earlier."

"I don't know why he's gone, but if we want to survive the night that will be here soon, we need to figure out where we are. Try to find some landmarks around the general area, but whatever you do, don't leave the path."

"I think we can handle that Austin." The group spilt up, and looked around for landmarks, then regrouped half an hour later, and reported what they had found.

"So, mountains to the south, a large cave to the east, and rolling fields of darkness to the west? Sounds like we're about a day and a half from the old castle. We can spend the night in the royal burial cave tonight, but we may have to spend tomorrow night in the open."

"That's OK but I feel kind of tired, can we get to that burial cave now?"

"We should look for food and water first, but we can probably go in that general direction soon."

Suddenly the ground shook, and they heard a thunderous crash. The path under them started to fade, and creatures started to appear out of the ground.

"Everybody run! Follow me!" Austin turned around, and started sprinting down the fading path.


The ground shook, and the lid above him shattered. A very faint light filtered through the dusty air as Mackenzie sat up, and carefully climbed out of the stone coffin he was in. He carefully set his feet on the floor, and took a few steps away from the coffin. When everything seemed to be OK, he walked over toward the nearest door, opened it, and headed down the hallway beyond.

Wherever he was, Mackenzie didn't like the feel of long, dark, scary hallways. You never knew what was going to jump out from behind the next pillar. He stepped on a tile, and felt it shift under his weight. A large hole opened in the ceiling, and a hundred twilight bats came out and flew away towards the coffin he had emerged from. He took a few steps back, and another tile was pressed down. This time, a bunch of beams of darkness shot across the path, blocking him from going back the way he had come from. He stopped for a minute, got control of himself, and then slowly walked towards the end of the hallway, being careful to avoid anything that looked like a trap. At the end of the hallway was a staircase that ascended into absolute darkness. Mackenzie took a deep breath, set his teeth, and began his climb.


The path was fading faster than they could run. This didn't look good. The group ran across a large field, and then Austin stopped for a second, and looked around. "That way! To the tower!" Austin set off across the field of darkness, heading straight for their final bastion of hope. The North Wall.


When he reached the top of the stairs, he was glad to see a large door in the wall before him. He swung it open, and stepped out into the moonlight, and into a pool of quickstone. His troubles had just begun.


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